WEBVTT 00:00:00.925 --> 00:00:04.600 And you who have no money, come, buy and eat. 00:00:04.600 --> 00:00:06.710 Come buy wine and milk 00:00:06.710 --> 00:00:09.100 without money and without cost. 00:00:09.100 --> 00:00:11.877 This is the issue. This is the stumbling block. 00:00:11.877 --> 00:00:15.757 Why some people refuse to come. 00:00:15.757 --> 00:00:18.056 You know Charles Spurgeon said, 00:00:18.056 --> 00:00:21.732 normally, when a salesman for instance, 00:00:21.732 --> 00:00:23.971 wants you to purchase something, 00:00:23.971 --> 00:00:26.550 he first describes the item he wants you to purchase. 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:29.756 And then, he tries to bring you up to the price. 00:00:29.756 --> 00:00:32.269 Well, not so with the Gospel. 00:00:32.269 --> 00:00:34.294 You first describe salvation, 00:00:34.294 --> 00:00:37.698 then you have to come down to the price. 00:00:37.698 --> 00:00:40.191 Which is nothing. It's free. 00:00:40.191 --> 00:00:42.042 You can't pay anything. 00:00:42.042 --> 00:00:48.066 But Christ has already paid the price. 00:00:48.066 --> 00:00:54.221 We went to a museum today. 00:00:54.221 --> 00:00:57.697 And the children were drinking from those water fountains 00:00:57.697 --> 00:01:00.956 where you push them and you drink. 00:01:00.956 --> 00:01:04.073 No one ever gets the wallet out 00:01:04.073 --> 00:01:06.631 when they go to them, do they? 00:01:06.631 --> 00:01:10.284 Why? Because you know it's free. You know it's an offer. 00:01:10.292 --> 00:01:14.184 But yet with salvation, people hear it's free, 00:01:14.184 --> 00:01:17.144 they hear the message, that it's all of grace, 00:01:17.144 --> 00:01:19.548 that it's all of faith; 00:01:19.548 --> 00:01:22.096 but then they're trying to get their wallet out. 00:01:22.096 --> 00:01:25.786 There must be something I must do. 00:01:25.786 --> 00:01:27.628 Maybe it's some feeling. 00:01:27.628 --> 00:01:30.736 I've got to muster, I've got to work myself up some feeling. 00:01:30.736 --> 00:01:32.749 You know so-and-so had this testimony. 00:01:32.749 --> 00:01:40.128 So, I've got to have one exactly like him. 00:01:40.128 --> 00:01:42.575 Do you realize what that's saying? 00:01:42.575 --> 00:01:45.507 I won't trust you, God. I won't believe you. 00:01:45.507 --> 00:01:48.271 I'll call you a liar unless I have 00:01:48.271 --> 00:01:52.541 exactly the same feeling as so-and-so. 00:01:52.541 --> 00:01:53.895 What did Jesus say? 00:01:53.895 --> 00:02:00.626 And evil and wicked generation look for signs. 00:02:00.626 --> 00:02:02.248 It's without money, it's without cost, 00:02:02.248 --> 00:02:08.467 denoting the free-ness of the Gospel. 00:02:08.467 --> 00:02:15.308 You must accept salvation as a gift or not at all. 00:02:15.308 --> 00:02:19.613 Will you do that? Trust simply in Christ? 00:02:19.613 --> 00:02:29.280 It really is all of Him. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.514 I mean, what do people wait for? 00:02:34.514 --> 00:02:39.669 Sometimes people they're bound in some sin, 00:02:39.669 --> 00:02:43.047 and they think if only I can get rid of this, 00:02:43.047 --> 00:02:45.853 I'll believe. 00:02:45.853 --> 00:02:48.131 Well, that's a works salvation. 00:02:48.131 --> 00:02:49.528 That's trying to pay the price. 00:02:49.528 --> 00:02:50.956 That's like saying if I'll do my bit, 00:02:50.956 --> 00:02:56.622 then the Lord will owe me salvation then. 00:02:56.622 --> 00:02:59.442 That won't save anyone. 00:02:59.442 --> 00:03:01.645 You must come down to the price, and it's zero. 00:03:01.645 --> 00:03:04.560 You must go to Christ just as you are. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.452 As Horatius Bonar says, 00:03:06.452 --> 00:03:09.428 you must go to Christ with all your sins 00:03:09.428 --> 00:03:15.398 because that's the only thing you own. 00:03:15.398 --> 00:03:20.507 Not wanting to keep hold of your sins. 00:03:20.507 --> 00:03:27.100 But you can't deliver yourself from even one sin. 00:03:27.100 --> 00:03:29.356 Because even if you beat something, 00:03:29.356 --> 00:03:31.579 you'll only exchange it from one to another, 00:03:31.579 --> 00:03:34.528 like a Pharisee. 00:03:34.528 --> 00:03:36.833 You could give up pornography, 00:03:36.833 --> 00:03:39.833 you could give up lust after money, 00:03:39.833 --> 00:03:42.164 whatever's got a hold of you, 00:03:42.164 --> 00:03:44.854 and still be unsaved, 00:03:44.854 --> 00:03:49.257 if that's where you're looking. 00:03:49.257 --> 00:03:51.384 But if you simply trust on Christ, 00:03:51.384 --> 00:04:00.572 He will give you victory over whatever holds you back. 00:04:00.572 --> 00:04:03.747 It truly is all of Christ. 00:04:03.747 --> 00:04:05.082 Because when He saves a person, 00:04:05.082 --> 00:04:07.811 He also changes that person. 00:04:07.811 --> 00:04:11.507 But you can't change yourself. 00:04:11.507 --> 00:04:13.594 You can't save yourself. 00:04:13.594 --> 00:04:15.560 So stop trying to save yourself, 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.440 and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:22.856 and you will be saved. 00:04:22.856 --> 00:04:24.980 Without money, without cost. 00:04:24.980 --> 00:04:27.153 Notice: if it's without cost, if it's free, 00:04:27.153 --> 00:04:33.390 there's no excuse not to come to Him and be saved. 00:04:33.390 --> 00:04:41.192 No one will be in hell with an excuse. 00:04:41.192 --> 00:04:44.307 You heard this Gospel and why they didn't come to Christ. 00:04:44.307 --> 00:04:57.108 And why they didn't trust it was all of Him. 00:04:57.108 --> 00:04:59.745 Come and buy this wine and milk without price, 00:04:59.745 --> 00:05:03.329 the blessings of knowing God, communion with Him, 00:05:03.329 --> 00:05:07.358 knowing all your sins forgiven and life everlasting. 00:05:07.358 --> 00:05:10.128 Verse 2, Why do you spend money for that 00:05:10.128 --> 00:05:13.084 which is not bread, that which is not the truth, 00:05:13.084 --> 00:05:15.644 that which is not the Word of God. 00:05:15.644 --> 00:05:20.257 And your wages for that which does not satisfy. 00:05:20.257 --> 00:05:22.430 Why do you spend your life pursuing sin 00:05:22.430 --> 00:05:25.132 apart from God? 00:05:25.132 --> 00:05:26.627 Which does not satisfy. 00:05:26.627 --> 00:05:31.624 Sure it may satisfy and be pleasurable for a season. 00:05:31.624 --> 00:05:37.529 But sin is a deceiver. It will leave you bitter afterwards. 00:05:37.529 --> 00:05:43.939 What would you think if someone, 00:05:43.939 --> 00:05:46.496 one of your friends in here, 00:05:46.496 --> 00:05:51.279 you heard they went to a certain restaurant, 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:52.871 and they went there every week, 00:05:52.871 --> 00:05:54.553 you've never been there, and you think, 00:05:54.553 --> 00:05:57.594 wow, this must be good. I'll ask them about it. 00:05:57.594 --> 00:06:00.046 So you ask them what's it like. 00:06:00.046 --> 00:06:05.568 And they said it's very expensive. 00:06:05.568 --> 00:06:07.049 And tell me more? 00:06:07.049 --> 00:06:11.329 And they said the food tastes kind of sweet, 00:06:11.329 --> 00:06:16.196 but gives you a real bitter taste afterwards. 00:06:16.196 --> 00:06:18.347 And it makes you feel rotten the next day, 00:06:18.347 --> 00:06:21.566 I'm always ill the next day. 00:06:21.566 --> 00:06:24.849 Every time I go to that place. 00:06:24.849 --> 00:06:27.351 Would you want to keep on going there? 00:06:27.351 --> 00:06:32.973 Or would you think that person's out of your mind? 00:06:32.973 --> 00:06:35.859 You know, that's what it's doing to hold on 00:06:35.859 --> 00:06:40.547 to those things. 00:06:40.547 --> 00:06:43.343 Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread, 00:06:43.343 --> 00:06:49.602 and your wages on that which does not satisfy?